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Software-management system, recording medium, and information-processing device

  • US 20060168580A1
  • Filed: 02/19/2004
  • Published: 07/27/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A software-management system comprising a recording medium and an information-processing device, the recording medium including:

  • a normal storage unit having stored therein software that is computer data;

    a secure storage unit not directly accessible from outside, and having stored therein license information relating to a usage condition of the software; and

    a tamper-resistant module operable to judge, based on the license information, whether an operation, being one of installing software on the information-processing device and deactivating installed software, is permitted, and when judged in the affirmative, to output to the information-processing device an instruction showing that the operation is permitted, and to rewrite the license information in accordance with the operation, and the information-processing device including;

    a receiving unit operable to receive the instruction from the recording medium; and

    a control unit operable to perform, in accordance with the received instruction, one of (i) receiving software from the recording medium and installing the received software in the information-processing device, and (ii) deactivating installed software.

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